Health & Medicine
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May 26, 2020
Medical students drive development of new pandemic course
Led largely by students, a rapidly developed course on pandemics implemented this spring is likely to become a permanent part of the Medical School curriculum.
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May 5, 2020
Job cuts, other steps part of Michigan Medicine economic recovery plan
Michigan Medicine will undertake an economic recovery plan that includes furloughs or layoffs for hundreds of employees as well as other measures to cover hundreds of millions of dollars in projected losses related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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April 21, 2020
Michigan Medicine issues message regarding U-M finances
Michigan Medicine CEO Marschall Runge outlined actions the health system will take to reduce the financial impact of COVID-19. Leaders of UM-Dearborn and UM-Flint sent similar messages to their employees.
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April 21, 2020
Michigan Medicine part of statewide COVID-19 data collection effort
Michigan Medicine is teaming with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and 25 other Michigan hospitals to collect comprehensive clinical data on COVID-19 patients to help guide treating those with the virus.
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April 16, 2020
Website assists Michigan Medicine workers battling COVID-19
This website connects community volunteers who want to provide front-line Michigan Medicine health care workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 fight with relief from basic daily needs and other tasks.
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April 15, 2020
Michigan Medicine donation drive succeeds through broad effort
The story of how Michigan Medicine organized its massive effort to collect personal protective equipment and other items is a tale of cooperation and coordination across the U-M campus.
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April 13, 2020
U-M seeks help for health care workers, researchers, others
Weeks after U-M put out its first call for community help during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is doing so again, with more ways to help U-M health care teams and researchers, and community organizations.
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April 6, 2020
Wide range of U-M research focuses on coronavirus pandemic
Research projects and innovations related to COVID-19 have ramped up quickly across U-M, spurred by doctors, public health experts, scientists, economists and engineers, and encouraged by research leaders.
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April 6, 2020
COVID-19 research at U-M
Examples of some of the studies underway or planned at the University of Michigan related to the COVID-19 health crisis.
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April 5, 2020
U-M teams work to disinfect masks for medical personnel
Teams of U-M engineers are working to develop efficient, effective and scalable ways to disinfect N95 respirator masks for repeated use. The masks are needed to medical workers from COVID-19.
